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In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info Conor Cash, Craig Hughes, Stevie Peace & Kevin Van Meter | Team Colors
Whirlwinds Survey of Readers & Participants Introduction On May 25th, 2008 Team Colors Collective launched an ambitious one-off online journal entitled In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements (Whirlwinds). The purpose of Whirlwinds was to “inquire into current organizing efforts in the United States,” and through this process to “provide a strategic analysis of current political composition as a tool for building political power.” Since May, Whirlwinds events have been held in multiple places around the U.S. and thousands of people have accessed the online journal. With the journal complete and the seasons moving, Team Colors has begun a process of strategic reflection on the Whirlwinds effort. The survey below is a core-piece of that reflection. This is a way for us to engage those who have read the collection and participated in Of Friends & Whirlwinds events; and through this grasp how our readers and participants felt about the collection, the process we framed and the final outcomes. For Whirlwinds Contributors (authors) please see the survey specifically designed for you. Results of the Survey This survey is being undertaken in the spirit of militant research, and the results and responses from the survey will be posted on the Team Colors website (anonymously if you’d like, or not at all if that’s your preference). Additionally, Team Colors is currently writing an article titled “Of Whirlwinds and Wind Chimes (or ways to listen): Movement Building & Militant Research in the United States” – a full English version will appear on the Team Colors website and will be circulated in print from. This article has been commissioned by Arranca!, a radical publication for the FELS group in Germany, and a shorter version of the article will appear in its pages in German. For comments on specific Whirlwinds articles please utilize the comments section following each article. Relationship Building In addition to our primary hope of Whirlwinds being an inquiry into movement building and strategic dialog during the summer of 2008, Team Colors also initiated Whirlwinds to build relationships with organizations and individuals whose work it respected and who work we believe contributes to movement building efforts in the United States. We ask that you keep the collective abreast of your activities, consider us when producing research projects, and contact us if it can be useful to your organizing efforts. We are currently based in New York City, Portland, OR, Tucson, AZ and the Twin Cities and we would like to host local events – lectures, workshops, discussions – for those engaged in radical political organizing in the United States. Contact us at: [email protected]; and visit us on the web, here you can sign up for the Team Colors E-Newsletter and access additional materials, at: www.WarMachines.Info.
September 2008
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In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement & Movements www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info Whirlwinds Survey of Readers & Participants
Team Colors
Survey & Narrative Questions The following questions come in two forms: survey questions (please choose the appropriate number for the numbered questions) and narrative questions (describe your answers and reflections below). We respectively request that those readers and participants filing out this questionnaire answer all of the numbered survey questions, so we can have a full return on those questions.
Deadline for Responses: October 30th 2008 SURVEY: 1. May Team Colors post your survey responses on its website? Y | N 2. Have you had any prior organizing relationship, personal relationship or contact with Team Colors or Team Colors members? Y | N COMMUNICATION: 3. How effective were the Whirlwinds outreach emails, web posts and print materials? (Low)
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4. How clear was Team Colors on the purposes, content, and use of the Whirlwinds project? (Low)
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5. For those who communicated with us or participated in events, are you satisfied with the level of contact and communication from Team Colors during the project? (Low)
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For those answering question #5, what were the strong points about our communication with readers and participants, and how can this be strengthened in the future? OUTREACH: 5. How engaging did you find the Whirlwinds poster and postcards? (Low)
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6. Did you pick up Whirlwinds promotional materials at an infoshop, bookstore, community center, coop, or bike space? Y | N How did you hear about the Whirlwinds collection? Where did you obtain Whirlwinds print materials (following up from question #6)? OF FRIENDS & WHIRLWINDS EVENTS: 7. For those who attended Of Friends & Whirlwinds events, how useful was the event for you own organizing and how well did it address your interests? (Low)
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For those who attended Of Friends & Whirlwinds events, what were the strengths and weaknesses of the event(s) you attended? How can they be more useful, better organized, and more engaging in the future?
September 2008
www.warmachines.info
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In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement & Movements www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info Whirlwinds Survey of Readers & Participants
Team Colors
2008 CONVENTION PROTESTS 8. Did you participate in the 2008 Convention Protests? Y | N 9. For those that did participate, how useful did you find the interviews of anticonvention protest organizers for your own organizing and preparation? (Low)
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In a few words please describe your experiences at the 2008 Convention Protests, some successes and failures, points for future development; and for those who did not choose to participate, please explain your thought behind the convention protests? THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS & PROTEST PRESS 10. Had you been previously familiar with The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press, the presses titles (Failure!, An Atlas of Radical Cartography) or the irregularly published print journal? Y | N 11. Did you find the Whirlwinds website engaging and easy to navigate? (Low)
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Would you like to see The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press publishing similar journals in the future? How successful was Whirlwinds as a web journal? TEAM COLORS COLLECTIVE: 12. How did you find the quality of the Team Colors introduction and other written materials for the collection? (Low)
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What are your impressions of the collective itself? What are your thoughts on how the journal was framed, appeared, and publicized? PARTNERSHIP & RESEARCH : 13. Would you be interested in future Team Colors written materials, workshops or edited collections? Y | N What would you like to see from the collective in the future, and for those answering question #13 please expand upon your yes / no answer. How could Team Colors move from militant research to co-research – that is, research produced with movement organizations? PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE: 14. How engaging did you find the quality of the material in collection? (Low)
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15. How useful did you find the material in Whirlwinds? (Low)
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September 2008
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In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement & Movements www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info Whirlwinds Survey of Readers & Participants
Team Colors
What are among the strongest /weakest and most / lease useful articles in the journal, and why? How clear were we about producing knowledge about current movements? How effective have we been in obtaining articles that described how organizations, initiatives and movements functioned? How useful were these articles for your own work? RESOURCES: As a collective with limited resources, was producing an online journal with accompanying print outreach materials and events, the right direction? Was it a mistake not to produce a print journal or book thus far? What do you see as the viability of such a print project? How would you suggest Team Colors approach such interventions in the future? CLASS COMPOSITION: 11. Do you believe the Whirlwinds journal collection is useful in achieving its goal? (Low)
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In Whirlwinds Team Colors choose to look at movement composition as a step toward researching the larger question of class composition, since little attention has been paid to the structure, function, and content of current radical movements in the United States. Our reasoning was to utilize Whirlwinds as a way of taking steps toward the deployment of militant and co-research techniques to intervene in current class composition and organizing campaigns; in addition to introducing militant and co-research, precarity, and autonomist concepts to a larger audience in the United States. In what ways did Team Colors accomplish this with the collection? How can these practices and concepts be introduced to a larger audience in the United States? MILITANT & CO-RESEARCH: For Organizers: What role does research play in your organizing? For Researchers: How do you produce and carry out research toward radical and movement-grounded ends? For both: How do you produce and carry out research that is useful to and for radical movements? ADDITIONAL REFLECTIONS: Include any additional questions, comments, thoughts, critiques and opinions not addressed in this survey. PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Organizational Affiliation (if any): Email Address: City, State / Region:
September 2008
Anonymous: Y | N
www.warmachines.info
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Whirlwinds Survey of Readers & Participants Introduction On May 25th, 2008 Team Colors Collective launched an ambitious one-off online journal entitled In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements (Whirlwinds). The purpose of Whirlwinds was to “inquire into current organizing efforts in the United States,” and through this process to “provide a strategic analysis of current political composition as a tool for building political power.” Since May, Whirlwinds events have been held in multiple places around the U.S. and thousands of people have accessed the online journal. With the journal complete and the seasons moving, Team Colors has begun a process of strategic reflection on the Whirlwinds effort. The survey below is a core-piece of that reflection. This is a way for us to engage those who have read the collection and participated in Of Friends & Whirlwinds events; and through this grasp how our readers and participants felt about the collection, the process we framed and the final outcomes. For Whirlwinds Contributors (authors) please see the survey specifically designed for you. Results of the Survey This survey is being undertaken in the spirit of militant research, and the results and responses from the survey will be posted on the Team Colors website (anonymously if you’d like, or not at all if that’s your preference). Additionally, Team Colors is currently writing an article titled “Of Whirlwinds and Wind Chimes (or ways to listen): Movement Building & Militant Research in the United States” – a full English version will appear on the Team Colors website and will be circulated in print from. This article has been commissioned by Arranca!, a radical publication for the FELS group in Germany, and a shorter version of the article will appear in its pages in German. For comments on specific Whirlwinds articles please utilize the comments section following each article. Relationship Building In addition to our primary hope of Whirlwinds being an inquiry into movement building and strategic dialog during the summer of 2008, Team Colors also initiated Whirlwinds to build relationships with organizations and individuals whose work it respected and who work we believe contributes to movement building efforts in the United States. We ask that you keep the collective abreast of your activities, consider us when producing research projects, and contact us if it can be useful to your organizing efforts. We are currently based in New York City, Portland, OR, Tucson, AZ and the Twin Cities and we would like to host local events – lectures, workshops, discussions – for those engaged in radical political organizing in the United States. Contact us at: [email protected]; and visit us on the web, here you can sign up for the Team Colors E-Newsletter and access additional materials, at: www.WarMachines.Info.
September 2008
www.warmachines.info
1 of 4
In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement & Movements www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info Whirlwinds Survey of Readers & Participants
Team Colors
Survey & Narrative Questions The following questions come in two forms: survey questions (please choose the appropriate number for the numbered questions) and narrative questions (describe your answers and reflections below). We respectively request that those readers and participants filing out this questionnaire answer all of the numbered survey questions, so we can have a full return on those questions.
Deadline for Responses: October 30th 2008 SURVEY: 1. May Team Colors post your survey responses on its website? Y | N 2. Have you had any prior organizing relationship, personal relationship or contact with Team Colors or Team Colors members? Y | N COMMUNICATION: 3. How effective were the Whirlwinds outreach emails, web posts and print materials? (Low)
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7
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10
(High) N/A
4. How clear was Team Colors on the purposes, content, and use of the Whirlwinds project? (Low)
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(High) N/A
5. For those who communicated with us or participated in events, are you satisfied with the level of contact and communication from Team Colors during the project? (Low)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(High) N/A
For those answering question #5, what were the strong points about our communication with readers and participants, and how can this be strengthened in the future? OUTREACH: 5. How engaging did you find the Whirlwinds poster and postcards? (Low)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(High) N/A
6. Did you pick up Whirlwinds promotional materials at an infoshop, bookstore, community center, coop, or bike space? Y | N How did you hear about the Whirlwinds collection? Where did you obtain Whirlwinds print materials (following up from question #6)? OF FRIENDS & WHIRLWINDS EVENTS: 7. For those who attended Of Friends & Whirlwinds events, how useful was the event for you own organizing and how well did it address your interests? (Low)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(High) N/A
For those who attended Of Friends & Whirlwinds events, what were the strengths and weaknesses of the event(s) you attended? How can they be more useful, better organized, and more engaging in the future?
September 2008
www.warmachines.info
2 of 4
In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement & Movements www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info Whirlwinds Survey of Readers & Participants
Team Colors
2008 CONVENTION PROTESTS 8. Did you participate in the 2008 Convention Protests? Y | N 9. For those that did participate, how useful did you find the interviews of anticonvention protest organizers for your own organizing and preparation? (Low)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(High) N/A
In a few words please describe your experiences at the 2008 Convention Protests, some successes and failures, points for future development; and for those who did not choose to participate, please explain your thought behind the convention protests? THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS & PROTEST PRESS 10. Had you been previously familiar with The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press, the presses titles (Failure!, An Atlas of Radical Cartography) or the irregularly published print journal? Y | N 11. Did you find the Whirlwinds website engaging and easy to navigate? (Low)
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(High) N/A
Would you like to see The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press publishing similar journals in the future? How successful was Whirlwinds as a web journal? TEAM COLORS COLLECTIVE: 12. How did you find the quality of the Team Colors introduction and other written materials for the collection? (Low)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(High) N/A
What are your impressions of the collective itself? What are your thoughts on how the journal was framed, appeared, and publicized? PARTNERSHIP & RESEARCH : 13. Would you be interested in future Team Colors written materials, workshops or edited collections? Y | N What would you like to see from the collective in the future, and for those answering question #13 please expand upon your yes / no answer. How could Team Colors move from militant research to co-research – that is, research produced with movement organizations? PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE: 14. How engaging did you find the quality of the material in collection? (Low)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(High) N/A
15. How useful did you find the material in Whirlwinds? (Low)
1
September 2008
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www.warmachines.info
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In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement & Movements www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info Whirlwinds Survey of Readers & Participants
Team Colors
What are among the strongest /weakest and most / lease useful articles in the journal, and why? How clear were we about producing knowledge about current movements? How effective have we been in obtaining articles that described how organizations, initiatives and movements functioned? How useful were these articles for your own work? RESOURCES: As a collective with limited resources, was producing an online journal with accompanying print outreach materials and events, the right direction? Was it a mistake not to produce a print journal or book thus far? What do you see as the viability of such a print project? How would you suggest Team Colors approach such interventions in the future? CLASS COMPOSITION: 11. Do you believe the Whirlwinds journal collection is useful in achieving its goal? (Low)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(High) N/A
In Whirlwinds Team Colors choose to look at movement composition as a step toward researching the larger question of class composition, since little attention has been paid to the structure, function, and content of current radical movements in the United States. Our reasoning was to utilize Whirlwinds as a way of taking steps toward the deployment of militant and co-research techniques to intervene in current class composition and organizing campaigns; in addition to introducing militant and co-research, precarity, and autonomist concepts to a larger audience in the United States. In what ways did Team Colors accomplish this with the collection? How can these practices and concepts be introduced to a larger audience in the United States? MILITANT & CO-RESEARCH: For Organizers: What role does research play in your organizing? For Researchers: How do you produce and carry out research toward radical and movement-grounded ends? For both: How do you produce and carry out research that is useful to and for radical movements? ADDITIONAL REFLECTIONS: Include any additional questions, comments, thoughts, critiques and opinions not addressed in this survey. PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Organizational Affiliation (if any): Email Address: City, State / Region:
September 2008
Anonymous: Y | N
www.warmachines.info
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